1 00:00:40,68 --> 00:00:44,48 You've heard me say it before but I'm going to repeat it. 2 00:00:47,23 --> 00:00:52,60 American Rifleman are the best rifleman in the world because the training they get 3 00:00:52,86 --> 00:00:58,32 is the best in the world. You began that training with the siting and aiming 4 00:00:58,33 --> 00:01:02,11 exercises and you already know how to go on to the next step. 5 00:01:09,79 --> 00:01:14,59 Position exercises. For firing position. 6 00:01:17,28 --> 00:01:23,90 Chrome. Sitting. Kneeling. 7 00:01:25,70 --> 00:01:31,71 And the standing off hand position you know any old time I can walk down the firing 8 00:01:31,72 --> 00:01:36,55 line and come pretty close to picking up the men will do the best shooting and 9 00:01:36,56 --> 00:01:41,13 nothing mysterious about it he simply spots the men who've taken the best positions 10 00:01:42,06 --> 00:01:47,99 good positions being good scored for positions mean course cause it's as easy as 11 00:01:47,100 --> 00:01:53,34 that but here's the thing to remember. We're not teaching you these positions so 12 00:01:53,35 --> 00:01:54,12 that you can rattle off 13 00:01:54,13 --> 00:01:59,11 a string of bull's eyes on the target range. With teaching you to kill your enemy 14 00:01:59,12 --> 00:02:04,52 before he can kill you if you're going to survive. You've got to be able to shoot 15 00:02:04,56 --> 00:02:09,37 fast and straight from any position you've got to be able to drop into that 16 00:02:09,38 --> 00:02:15,27 position instantly automatically without thinking about it it must be correct the 17 00:02:15,28 --> 00:02:18,48 first time. Take 18 00:02:18,49 --> 00:02:24,08 a good look at these positions. They look easy. But you're not going to find these 19 00:02:24,09 --> 00:02:28,65 positions easy at first because they make you use muscles you never knew you had. 20 00:02:30,02 --> 00:02:36,80 But don't worry about that not those muscles. Your work in the position exercises 21 00:02:37,56 --> 00:02:44,21 also covers the use of the sling holding your breath while aiming and aiming. Will 22 00:02:44,22 --> 00:02:49,15 take up the sling first anyone here know the reason for the sling on the rifle. 23 00:02:51,09 --> 00:02:57,84 Carried with sir that's right and the other reason he doesn't yes 24 00:02:57,85 --> 00:02:58,81 say it's 25 00:02:58,82 --> 00:03:05,50 a big help in studying the rifle. At sea and. Now let's see how we go about getting 26 00:03:05,51 --> 00:03:12,06 the effects of it. Two ways to use the rifle sling the first like 27 00:03:12,07 --> 00:03:16,53 this is called the loop sling the other called 28 00:03:16,54 --> 00:03:21,67 a hasty sling is rarely used except in the standing position it will show you how 29 00:03:21,68 --> 00:03:26,21 to adjust it when we come to that position the loop sling is used in all other 30 00:03:26,22 --> 00:03:32,80 positions. Here's how to adjust it. Placed the rifle butt on the right thigh 31 00:03:33,58 --> 00:03:38,62 and cradle it in the curve of your right. So that you've got both hands free to 32 00:03:38,63 --> 00:03:43,95 adjust the sling. Unfasten the lower book. 33 00:03:45,60 --> 00:03:50,86 And refasten it near the butt swivel. This loosens the lower loop. 34 00:03:52,83 --> 00:03:53,72 Unfasten the up 35 00:03:53,73 --> 00:04:00,59 a hook and refasten it so that the loop hangs down to about the pistol grip. 36 00:04:02,96 --> 00:04:08,73 But it may need further adjustment. The correct place for the up of oak depends on 37 00:04:08,74 --> 00:04:14,64 the man you'll get your fit by trying it out after your instructor is satisfied you 38 00:04:14,65 --> 00:04:18,81 have the right pair of holes mark them so that you'll find them at 39 00:04:18,82 --> 00:04:25,80 a glance. Twist the sling one half turn to the left and insert the left 40 00:04:25,81 --> 00:04:32,53 hand through the upper loop from right to left. Slide the loop 41 00:04:32,68 --> 00:04:39,35 well up your left. Leave the loose end free 42 00:04:39,84 --> 00:04:41,72 and use both hands to work the up 43 00:04:41,73 --> 00:04:45,56 a hook and the first keeper down close against your arm. 44 00:04:49,43 --> 00:04:52,29 Then pull down the second keeper against the up 45 00:04:52,30 --> 00:04:59,19 a hook. This locks the upper loop in place against your. And keep 46 00:04:59,20 --> 00:05:02,21 it from slipping. You can't shoot with 47 00:05:02,22 --> 00:05:09,05 a loose loop sliding down your arm once the loop is correctly adjusted. Move your 48 00:05:09,06 --> 00:05:15,06 left hand over the top of the sling and place it under the rifle. Against the up 49 00:05:15,07 --> 00:05:20,81 a sling swivel. The rifle must rest in the V. 50 00:05:20,82 --> 00:05:27,45 Between your thumb and forefinger and on the heel of your hand. Wrist straight 51 00:05:28,03 --> 00:05:34,99 thing goes relaxed. The sling must lie smoothly along your hand and wrist. 52 00:05:36,48 --> 00:05:43,19 If it doesn't you have done something wrong. This is the way you hold the 53 00:05:43,20 --> 00:05:49,33 rifle. Now let's go over the loop sling adjustment want small 54 00:05:50,55 --> 00:05:55,78 place the butt on your right thigh. Cradle the rifle in your right. 55 00:05:58,01 --> 00:06:04,04 Unfastened the lower hook. Refasten it near the butt swivel. 56 00:06:06,48 --> 00:06:12,75 Twist the sling a half turn to the left. Insert your left through the up 57 00:06:12,76 --> 00:06:17,44 a loop from right to left. Pull the loop well up your. 58 00:06:20,39 --> 00:06:21,19 Then work up 59 00:06:21,20 --> 00:06:28,04 a hook and the first keeper down against it. And pull 60 00:06:28,05 --> 00:06:34,04 down the second keeper to lock the upper loop. So much for the loop sling your 61 00:06:34,05 --> 00:06:39,10 instructors will go over this detail with. Other any questions if. 62 00:06:42,42 --> 00:06:46,35 So will the Japs in German shooting at you like you said looks like you would have 63 00:06:46,36 --> 00:06:50,12 much chance to get that sling on keep thinking like that and you lived to tell your 64 00:06:50,13 --> 00:06:54,73 grandchildren about it you were right cos use the sling whenever you have time to 65 00:06:54,74 --> 00:07:00,12 use it because it gives you greater steadiness. After you've learned swing 66 00:07:00,13 --> 00:07:04,69 adjustment you're ready to start work on positions. Let's take 67 00:07:04,70 --> 00:07:10,58 a look at the prone position first. In the prone position the rifleman lies flat on 68 00:07:10,59 --> 00:07:16,82 his belly with his legs stretched out comfortably his inside ankle bones are on the 69 00:07:16,83 --> 00:07:22,20 ground or as near it as he can get them without strain his spine is straight his 70 00:07:22,21 --> 00:07:24,90 body makes an angle of thirty degrees or less with 71 00:07:24,91 --> 00:07:31,25 a line of aim. The amount of the angle depending on the rifleman's build when you 72 00:07:31,26 --> 00:07:35,64 are trying out these positions your instructors and coaches will help you to find 73 00:07:35,65 --> 00:07:40,86 the angle that suits you best. Thereafter it's up to you to practice the position 74 00:07:41,12 --> 00:07:46,63 until you can drop into it without thinking about it. The sergeant here is well 75 00:07:46,64 --> 00:07:53,54 behind his rifle. His wages relaxed forward against the sling. 76 00:07:55,58 --> 00:07:59,91 Thus his body takes up the recoil and he has not thrown it out of position each 77 00:07:59,92 --> 00:08:06,71 time he fired look at his left hand and. The rifle rests on the heel of the hand in 78 00:08:06,72 --> 00:08:07,14 the V. 79 00:08:07,15 --> 00:08:12,86 Between the thumb in the first finger. His left wrist is straight his fingers are 80 00:08:12,87 --> 00:08:18,55 relaxed. His left elbow is under the piece it's very cool 81 00:08:19,74 --> 00:08:23,14 I can press down hard on this rifle and it will give 82 00:08:23,15 --> 00:08:28,30 a little then come right back to its proper position. But when the elbow is not 83 00:08:28,31 --> 00:08:32,91 under the piece the least pressure will make the rifle say way off to the side. 84 00:08:33,73 --> 00:08:38,77 Because muscle instead of bone supports it. A muscle gets tired 85 00:08:39,42 --> 00:08:43,58 a bone doesn't so remember elbow under the piece. 86 00:08:47,36 --> 00:08:51,10 Now look at his right hand his right elbow is 87 00:08:51,11 --> 00:08:56,96 a little forward of his right shoulder. Is Right makes an angle of about forty five 88 00:08:56,97 --> 00:09:03,78 degrees with the ground shoulders are about level. Right fits 89 00:09:03,79 --> 00:09:10,65 into the hollow of his right shoulder. That's important. Raise your left hand 90 00:09:10,66 --> 00:09:16,22 and feel that hollow on your shoulder curl your shoulder forward and the hollow is 91 00:09:16,23 --> 00:09:22,80 still more pronounced. Now look at Sergeant take and see how snugly his rifle fits 92 00:09:22,81 --> 00:09:29,50 into that hollow. I don't want to see anybody in this company trying to shoot with 93 00:09:29,51 --> 00:09:34,88 a rifle on the point of the shoulder here. All that will get you is 94 00:09:34,89 --> 00:09:41,20 a sore shoulder and that means flinching. And flinching means poor shooting. 95 00:09:45,59 --> 00:09:46,03 Grasp 96 00:09:46,04 --> 00:09:52,05 a small of the rifle stuck firmly with your right hand and get this put your thumb 97 00:09:52,06 --> 00:09:58,35 across the stock or on top of the stock never alongside the stud with your thumb in 98 00:09:58,36 --> 00:10:01,97 the right position you've got a firm purchased for your trigger squeeze and 99 00:10:01,98 --> 00:10:07,83 a good support for your cheek the finger goes inside the trigger guard against the 100 00:10:07,84 --> 00:10:14,79 trigger and the finger is clear the stuck. You can use any part of 101 00:10:14,80 --> 00:10:19,32 your finger from the tip to the second joint to squeeze the trigger what seems 102 00:10:19,33 --> 00:10:23,20 natural and comfortable to you will probably give you the study of squeezing for 103 00:10:23,21 --> 00:10:29,02 that reason is the best. Press your cheek firmly against the stock and on your 104 00:10:29,03 --> 00:10:35,59 thumb. Let your neck muscles relax and hold your head so that you're looking not 105 00:10:35,63 --> 00:10:41,00 out of the corners of your eyes but straight ahead with your eyes level that's the 106 00:10:41,01 --> 00:10:43,70 correct position it varies 107 00:10:43,71 --> 00:10:48,25 a little with each man depending upon his build but there isn't much difference 108 00:10:49,58 --> 00:10:54,39 you'll soon discover the exact position that suits you. It's 109 00:10:54,40 --> 00:10:59,58 a matter of practice. You will have targets to aim at in all of your exercises 110 00:11:00,69 --> 00:11:06,100 every time you get into position aligned your sights on the talk. A good soldier 111 00:11:07,01 --> 00:11:13,87 does this instinctively you never even thinks about it. Here's something else when 112 00:11:13,88 --> 00:11:18,85 you take any of the correct firing positions you will find that the rifle aims 113 00:11:18,86 --> 00:11:25,57 naturally and without effort at some one point. If this point 114 00:11:25,79 --> 00:11:30,72 is not on the center of the target move your whole body to the line of aim is the 115 00:11:30,73 --> 00:11:33,83 natural line. There's 116 00:11:33,84 --> 00:11:38,14 a good way to tell if your body is lined up correctly after you are in position 117 00:11:38,52 --> 00:11:43,82 close your eyes and relax then when you open it if you're on the center of the 118 00:11:43,83 --> 00:11:50,75 target you're OK if not shift your whole body if you shift the rifle 119 00:11:50,80 --> 00:11:54,01 independently instead of your body you'll be in 120 00:11:54,02 --> 00:11:58,91 a strange uncomfortable position and no man can shoot his best when he's fighting 121 00:11:58,92 --> 00:12:05,69 his own muscles. These 122 00:12:05,70 --> 00:12:11,96 men are demonstrating some of the things not to do. But they are common areas let's 123 00:12:11,97 --> 00:12:12,14 take 124 00:12:12,15 --> 00:12:19,88 a look at this first man. His 125 00:12:19,89 --> 00:12:26,47 body is that to create an angle where the line of aim. Now is behind the rifle as 126 00:12:26,48 --> 00:12:33,28 he's got to be. Look at this man's right elbow. It's too close to his 127 00:12:33,29 --> 00:12:39,86 body unsteady. His left tends to fall back. And he's got his thumb 128 00:12:39,87 --> 00:12:43,53 alongside the stuck now he'll assume the correct position. 129 00:12:50,62 --> 00:12:57,22 This man's left elbow is not on the piece. And have a devil of 130 00:12:57,23 --> 00:13:03,35 a time staying on the target. Areas like this stand out plainly 131 00:13:04,40 --> 00:13:08,50 others are not so easy to pick up when you are acting as the coach keep 132 00:13:08,51 --> 00:13:14,15 a sharp eye on your pupil when he's wrong showing where he's wrong and why then 133 00:13:14,16 --> 00:13:19,86 make him take the correct position so the point will be burned into his mind don't 134 00:13:19,87 --> 00:13:26,56 forget. When you take the prone position correctly the muzzle will 135 00:13:26,57 --> 00:13:32,15 automatically drop back on the target after each shot this saves time and in battle 136 00:13:32,96 --> 00:13:36,69 a few seconds are enough to settle the argument between you and the guy on the 137 00:13:36,70 --> 00:13:42,77 other side not. The sandbag rest position is just like 138 00:13:42,78 --> 00:13:48,38 a prone position except that the sandbags used to support the left forearm wrist 139 00:13:48,42 --> 00:13:54,38 and hand the pupil takes the correct prone position and aim to this target the 140 00:13:54,39 --> 00:13:59,36 coach then manipulates the sandbag until it is slightly higher than the back of the 141 00:13:59,37 --> 00:14:05,12 pupils left hand the coach punches the sandbag with his hand until he gets 142 00:14:05,13 --> 00:14:11,89 a perfect fit. This is the coach's job the pupil can do it for himself next 143 00:14:12,21 --> 00:14:17,57 he faces the pupil straddles the rifle barrel and slides the narrow side of the 144 00:14:17,58 --> 00:14:23,77 sandbag against the left forearm so that it supports the forearm the wrist and the 145 00:14:23,78 --> 00:14:30,06 back of the hand. Only the back of the hand rests on the top of the 146 00:14:30,07 --> 00:14:31,93 sandbag it's 147 00:14:31,94 --> 00:14:37,78 a common era for beginners to rest the rifle on the sandbag but it won't work the 148 00:14:37,79 --> 00:14:44,61 sandbags supports the forearm wrist and hand. Now Sergeant take and is going to 149 00:14:44,62 --> 00:14:46,78 show you the sitting position which is 150 00:14:46,79 --> 00:14:53,41 a good one in high grass brush or on sloping ground. For the sitting position 151 00:14:54,03 --> 00:14:57,48 you would usually have to make your sling to hold shorter than for the prone 152 00:14:57,49 --> 00:15:03,81 position. Your body faces half right from the target. 153 00:15:05,13 --> 00:15:07,46 As you sit spread your feet apart. 154 00:15:12,11 --> 00:15:18,79 From other prop and your knees and brace show heels family. Get your toes 155 00:15:18,80 --> 00:15:24,22 down flat on the ground if you can get them there and relax your ankles. 156 00:15:27,82 --> 00:15:34,01 Keep your knees straight up not. And keep them fairly low about ten inches off the 157 00:15:34,02 --> 00:15:39,02 ground the point is that you've got to get the back of your left. 158 00:15:40,83 --> 00:15:46,57 Firmly braced three or four inches down on your left shin. This way with your left 159 00:15:46,58 --> 00:15:51,19 elbow on to the rifle where it belongs the weight of the rifle come straight down 160 00:15:51,20 --> 00:15:57,21 your leg. Hold your right hand and as you do in the prone position against your 161 00:15:57,22 --> 00:15:59,87 right knee so that your right shin bone forms 162 00:15:59,88 --> 00:16:05,71 a block for your upper arm lean well forward from your hips not your waist. 163 00:16:06,82 --> 00:16:09,26 Keep your back straight and your weight forward. 164 00:16:13,78 --> 00:16:20,62 Don't rest your elbows on your knees you'll wobble. Your elbows will roll around no 165 00:16:20,63 --> 00:16:21,37 man can shoot in 166 00:16:21,38 --> 00:16:28,11 a position like that. Get your arms well down on your legs several inches. 167 00:16:29,46 --> 00:16:36,38 Remember that left elbow. Keep it under the rifle. Now 168 00:16:36,39 --> 00:16:36,68 you've got 169 00:16:36,69 --> 00:16:40,63 a solid steady position and you won't be knocked off balance by the recoil. 170 00:16:43,68 --> 00:16:47,37 That's the normal sitting position it's the best one that will be used in this 171 00:16:47,38 --> 00:16:49,09 company we may have 172 00:16:49,10 --> 00:16:54,38 a few men of exceptional build We're not suited to it. Every man may have to use 173 00:16:54,39 --> 00:16:55,64 the crossed ankle position. 174 00:17:03,29 --> 00:17:07,80 And men with exceptionally long legs may have to take the crossed leg position. 175 00:17:14,55 --> 00:17:18,40 But your platoon leaders will decide which men if any are to use these alternate 176 00:17:18,41 --> 00:17:25,30 positions. Now if there are no questions. We'll go into the 177 00:17:25,31 --> 00:17:29,87 kneeling position. Your sling is usually the same length as for the sitting 178 00:17:29,88 --> 00:17:36,33 position first half right face. Then get down on your right knee 179 00:17:36,94 --> 00:17:43,76 and sit on your heels. So it's the top of your foot 180 00:17:44,11 --> 00:17:49,02 flat on the ground. It takes practice but you can do it. 181 00:17:53,01 --> 00:17:56,87 With your healing inclined to want to talk like this your foot helps to brace you 182 00:17:56,88 --> 00:18:03,43 against the guns recoil. Don't sit on the inside of your foot rapid fire make you 183 00:18:03,44 --> 00:18:04,11 bob around like 184 00:18:04,12 --> 00:18:10,98 a cork. Sit firmly on top of your heels with your weight well forward. Your left 185 00:18:10,99 --> 00:18:17,19 elbow is under the rifle and in front of your kneecap. Never on top of your kneecap 186 00:18:17,19 --> 00:18:24,10 . The position of your left leg depends on your build. The 187 00:18:24,11 --> 00:18:28,34 total You are the father to the front your leg will be your instructors will help 188 00:18:28,35 --> 00:18:28,76 you find 189 00:18:28,77 --> 00:18:34,12 a position that suits you best but your lower left leg seen from the front must 190 00:18:34,13 --> 00:18:39,17 always be vertical. Keep your right elbow comfortably high this makes 191 00:18:39,18 --> 00:18:43,36 a snug seat for the rifle in the hollow of your shoulder if you drop your arm 192 00:18:43,37 --> 00:18:48,18 through for the hollow disappears and the rifle butt tends to move out to the point 193 00:18:48,19 --> 00:18:55,02 of the shoulder. Another thing the lower right leg forms a right angle with 194 00:18:55,03 --> 00:19:01,79 a line of aim. At first you'll find an eating position on 195 00:19:01,80 --> 00:19:06,31 steady but don't worry about it it will never be as steady as the prone of the 196 00:19:06,32 --> 00:19:10,38 sitting position but practice will strengthen your muscles and increase your 197 00:19:10,39 --> 00:19:16,54 steadiness This brings us to the standing or off hand position and the hasty sling 198 00:19:16,69 --> 00:19:21,37 which is rarely used except in this position. Let's stop with the sling. 199 00:19:23,95 --> 00:19:30,61 First loosen the lower loop. Twist the sling I have turned to the left. 200 00:19:33,27 --> 00:19:33,51 Hold 201 00:19:33,52 --> 00:19:39,01 a rifle with your left hand just back of the UP A sling swivel. And your right hand 202 00:19:39,02 --> 00:19:40,78 at the small of the stock with 203 00:19:40,79 --> 00:19:46,50 a thumb Well over on the left side. Then swing the rifle so that the sling Falls 204 00:19:46,51 --> 00:19:52,83 High on your up rom. Let go of the rifle with your left hand pass it under and over 205 00:19:52,84 --> 00:19:55,50 the sling and regress the rifle near the up 206 00:19:55,51 --> 00:20:02,30 a sling swivel. The sling now lies smoothly along the arm and hand. 207 00:20:03,50 --> 00:20:09,83 It holds the left up and stretches tightly across the chest. That's where you get 208 00:20:09,84 --> 00:20:13,35 support and you need all you can get in the standing position. 209 00:20:16,97 --> 00:20:18,15 Adjust your sling for 210 00:20:18,16 --> 00:20:22,99 a tight fit your instructors will help you when you get it right Mark it. 211 00:20:25,49 --> 00:20:29,14 All right Sergeant But see that again here's how to take 212 00:20:29,15 --> 00:20:32,93 a standing position face right until you're almost at 213 00:20:32,94 --> 00:20:36,92 a right angle to the line of aim place your feet about a foot and 214 00:20:36,93 --> 00:20:42,06 a half apart. Keep your body 215 00:20:42,07 --> 00:20:48,14 a wrecked and well balanced as you raise your rifle to firing position fit the butt 216 00:20:48,25 --> 00:20:53,57 into the hollow of your shoulder. But higher than in the other position. High 217 00:20:53,58 --> 00:20:57,30 enough so that part of it can be seen above your shoulder from the rear. 218 00:21:03,58 --> 00:21:07,29 If the pot is too low you'll have to strain your neck to get at the site. 219 00:21:10,96 --> 00:21:14,43 If the body is where it should be your head and neck will be erect 220 00:21:14,44 --> 00:21:21,27 a natural. Keep the right elbow up the higher the better at first you'll find 221 00:21:21,28 --> 00:21:26,33 this unnatural and uncomfortable but practice will fix that and it gives you the 222 00:21:26,34 --> 00:21:29,02 power of all those arm muscles to take up the weight of the rifle. 223 00:21:33,45 --> 00:21:38,01 Here's an exercise that will loosen up the shoulder joint when you've done enough 224 00:21:38,23 --> 00:21:44,21 you'll be able to hold the rifle up with your right hand alone. The main job of the 225 00:21:44,22 --> 00:21:47,70 left hand is to steady the rifle not to support it. 226 00:21:57,26 --> 00:22:04,04 Keep your left elbow well under the rifle. And the left hand as 227 00:22:04,05 --> 00:22:10,92 far forward as you can get it without strain or discomfort. At best the standing 228 00:22:10,93 --> 00:22:15,22 position is unsteady but you have to use it on the range and you have to use it in 229 00:22:15,23 --> 00:22:20,02 battle so it's up to you to make the most of it and that means plenty of practice. 230 00:22:21,44 --> 00:22:23,32 Nearly every recruit gets 231 00:22:23,33 --> 00:22:28,33 a brilliant idea of how to overcome this unsteadiness he pulls his left arm back 232 00:22:28,34 --> 00:22:33,51 against his ribs balances the rifle delicately on his thumb and two fingers and 233 00:22:33,52 --> 00:22:38,22 blazes away. But that doesn't work does it Sergeant begins. 234 00:22:40,90 --> 00:22:45,12 There's only one right way to hold the rifle in the standing position and the 235 00:22:45,13 --> 00:22:46,79 sergeant is showing it to you right now. 236 00:22:54,83 --> 00:23:00,67 Thank you Sergeant taken. Now you know the position I've given them to you one 237 00:23:00,68 --> 00:23:04,51 after another to let you compare them to you where they're different and where 238 00:23:04,52 --> 00:23:07,12 they're the same all except 239 00:23:07,13 --> 00:23:14,92 a standing position and these points in common. Always 240 00:23:14,93 --> 00:23:16,21 hold the rifle at the small of 241 00:23:16,22 --> 00:23:21,29 a stock with your right thumb on top of or across the stock but never along the 242 00:23:21,30 --> 00:23:27,20 side. Always keep your left hand against the upper sling swivel with 243 00:23:27,21 --> 00:23:32,18 a rifle in the crotch formed by the thumb and the first finger wrist straight 244 00:23:32,47 --> 00:23:38,60 fingers relaxed always have your left elbow under your rifle and always squeeze the 245 00:23:38,61 --> 00:23:43,22 trigger with whatever part of your forefinger between the tip and the second joint 246 00:23:43,54 --> 00:23:48,78 feels firmest and most comfortable always pressure cheek firmly against the stop 247 00:23:49,69 --> 00:23:56,54 and hold the butt of the gun in the hollow of the shoulder. In the standing 248 00:23:56,55 --> 00:24:00,10 position only your left hand need not be against the up 249 00:24:00,11 --> 00:24:06,82 a sling swivel. Put it as far forward as you can comfortably and your left elbow 250 00:24:06,83 --> 00:24:10,71 doesn't have to be directly under the rifle. Make these have 251 00:24:10,72 --> 00:24:13,64 a thought of magic and they'll save you time and help you get 252 00:24:13,65 --> 00:24:18,66 a well aimed shot off. In these position exercises of course you don't squeeze the 253 00:24:18,67 --> 00:24:24,35 trigger that comes later but as soon as you're in any of the firing positions you 254 00:24:24,36 --> 00:24:29,54 must hold your breath and aim. You do this in drive shooting and you do it in 255 00:24:29,55 --> 00:24:34,81 actual firing We'll show you the right way to hold your breath and still be 256 00:24:34,82 --> 00:24:38,88 comfortable take an ordinary breath then let 257 00:24:38,89 --> 00:24:45,16 a little out. Then hold the rest of that breath while you aim and fire to keep the 258 00:24:45,17 --> 00:24:45,40 N. 259 00:24:45,41 --> 00:24:50,69 Your lungs during aiming close your throat by swallowing but don't hold your breath 260 00:24:50,70 --> 00:24:56,78 too long if you do your muscles get tense your eyes. Will get wobbly 261 00:24:57,70 --> 00:24:59,42 when this happens relax for 262 00:24:59,43 --> 00:25:04,13 a moment and start over again. But don't think you can practically hold your breath 263 00:25:05,15 --> 00:25:09,65 you either hold it or you don't and while you're aiming and squeezing the trigger 264 00:25:10,23 --> 00:25:15,13 you've got to hold your breath. Whenever you practice any of these position 265 00:25:15,14 --> 00:25:20,78 exercises always check your position carefully close your eyes and then over them 266 00:25:20,79 --> 00:25:23,69 and see if you're on the center of the target that's always have 267 00:25:23,70 --> 00:25:30,54 a target then hold your breath and aim. With your coach check your pupil carefully 268 00:25:30,55 --> 00:25:37,53 for all these points helps them. Helps you to you learn from your pupils mistakes. 269 00:25:39,01 --> 00:25:42,78 You know it's a soldier skill that brings them through a battle alive and 270 00:25:42,79 --> 00:25:44,50 a degree of skill you attend as 271 00:25:44,51 --> 00:25:50,35 a soldier depends entirely on you. You've got to master not just one firing 272 00:25:50,36 --> 00:25:54,62 position but all for the enemy isn't going to give you 273 00:25:54,63 --> 00:25:59,08 a chance to Choose the one you like best you may be standing in 274 00:25:59,09 --> 00:26:03,36 a foxhole with your elbows on the parent. Or behind 275 00:26:03,37 --> 00:26:09,96 a tree. Whole. Thing in the shell. Or heavy 276 00:26:09,97 --> 00:26:16,73 undergrowth sitting snipers pose. Or in the field. Maybe prone 277 00:26:17,04 --> 00:26:17,15 in 278 00:26:17,16 --> 00:26:24,24 a ditch. In the open. That's why we teach you the four firing positions and value 279 00:26:24,25 --> 00:26:30,19 in them until they become second nature. To get you ready for the top spot will be 280 00:26:30,20 --> 00:26:35,57 plenty of tough spots and when you get into one your whole job will be to get your 281 00:26:35,58 --> 00:26:41,20 shots off fast and hit what you're shooting at so work on the firing position is 282 00:26:41,21 --> 00:26:47,92 now where you can. Later on you'll be mighty glad you did. Because you'll get your 283 00:26:47,93 --> 00:26:50,32 enemy before he gets you. 284 00:27:40,42 --> 00:27:46,27 On the correct side picture is how to get that picture into the sights of the rifle 285 00:27:46,51 --> 00:27:52,21 and hold it. Sitting. Standing 286 00:27:53,03 --> 00:27:59,81 Today we take up the most important thing in rifle marksmanship. Take 287 00:27:59,82 --> 00:28:00,39 a squeak. 288 00:28:08,03 --> 00:28:12,29 By that time take a squeeze I mean the process you go through to bring 289 00:28:12,30 --> 00:28:18,90 a trigger back and fire your rifle. You know when I was learning to shoot the 290 00:28:18,91 --> 00:28:25,31 rifle my coach was an old sergeant and everything from Santiago to the Agong. 291 00:28:26,97 --> 00:28:27,63 We got to take 292 00:28:27,64 --> 00:28:33,89 a squeeze he told me something that has stayed with me ever since. So how do the 293 00:28:33,90 --> 00:28:37,41 trick you're squeezing the heart and soul the beginning of the end of all good 294 00:28:37,42 --> 00:28:40,70 shooting with that you can part the hair of any guy 295 00:28:40,71 --> 00:28:47,69 a rapper as far as you can see. Without it you might as well throw your rival is 296 00:28:47,70 --> 00:28:49,88 about even rock you know do I have 297 00:28:49,89 --> 00:28:54,91 a lot better. I don't know what he was talking about. 298 00:28:56,87 --> 00:28:57,26 You can be 299 00:28:57,27 --> 00:29:03,93 a ball of fire and you're citing Amy you can be red hot and your position. But if 300 00:29:03,94 --> 00:29:10,67 you can't teach that figure finger. We. We. 301 00:29:12,19 --> 00:29:16,29 We. Well you better get yourself 302 00:29:16,58 --> 00:29:20,100 a supply of rocks that's my old Sergeant suggested because you're going to need 303 00:29:21,01 --> 00:29:26,58 them and there's nothing difficult about the take a squeeze. It's just 304 00:29:26,59 --> 00:29:28,99 a question of applying 305 00:29:29,06 --> 00:29:35,51 a smooth increasing pressure to the trigger until the rifle fire the trick is 306 00:29:35,98 --> 00:29:40,86 to apply that pressure so smoothly and so steadily that you can't tell when the 307 00:29:40,87 --> 00:29:46,58 rifle is going to fire if you can't tell when the rifle is going off you can't jump 308 00:29:46,88 --> 00:29:53,56 or jerk as we say in the army you can't flinch if you haven't seen and I'm trained 309 00:29:53,57 --> 00:30:00,48 press and father rifle. This is what happens. He gets all set gets 310 00:30:00,49 --> 00:30:03,21 into position throws what he thinks is 311 00:30:03,22 --> 00:30:09,22 a fine bead on the target and then closes both eyes and yanks the trigger 312 00:30:10,40 --> 00:30:17,32 and he wonders why he never hits the target remember this it's instinctive natural 313 00:30:17,69 --> 00:30:22,22 for every one of us to close both eyes and tighten up when we find 314 00:30:22,23 --> 00:30:29,01 a rifle if we know when that rifle is going off. When you do that just for your 315 00:30:29,02 --> 00:30:35,30 Aine. You not only missed the boat but you may miss the whole target. Now there's 316 00:30:35,31 --> 00:30:41,99 only one way to beat nature on this proposition. That is to squeeze the trigger so 317 00:30:42,00 --> 00:30:48,54 smoothly. To increase the pressure so steadily that you don't know when the rifle 318 00:30:48,55 --> 00:30:54,50 is going off if you don't know the rifle is going off you can close your eyes 319 00:30:54,74 --> 00:31:01,55 flinch and spoil your aim for the shot of fire. Or if you can do better eyes 320 00:31:01,59 --> 00:31:06,56 after the rifle fire and that doesn't hurt anything because the shot is already on 321 00:31:06,57 --> 00:31:13,11 its way simple isn't it. And let's see exactly how you go about learning this trick 322 00:31:13,12 --> 00:31:18,67 in your dry shooting. If you practice the trigger squeeze in all positions but you 323 00:31:18,68 --> 00:31:20,83 start out in the prone position with 324 00:31:20,84 --> 00:31:25,40 a sandbag because that's the steadiest and it lets you concentrate on the sight 325 00:31:25,41 --> 00:31:31,81 picture and squeeze until you get the hang of it thirst you take the prone position 326 00:31:32,76 --> 00:31:36,46 and adjust yourself until the rifle points at the target without effort. 327 00:31:44,86 --> 00:31:46,73 Then the coach fits the sandbag. 328 00:31:58,35 --> 00:32:04,29 Coach take his position and the exercise begin. On your rifle. 329 00:32:06,18 --> 00:32:11,61 Hold your breath and aim. When you get the correct side picture take up the slack. 330 00:32:13,00 --> 00:32:17,81 By trigger slack we mean the play between the triggers forward point and the point 331 00:32:17,82 --> 00:32:23,87 where you first feel resistance. Take it up decisively 332 00:32:24,81 --> 00:32:27,30 and while you're taking up the slack you're starting 333 00:32:27,31 --> 00:32:33,49 a bigger screen. So one action of your finger working by itself 334 00:32:33,97 --> 00:32:40,53 independent of the rest of your hand. Pressed smoothly straight to the rear and you 335 00:32:40,54 --> 00:32:45,55 increase the pressure steadily from start to finish. Your rifle has 336 00:32:45,56 --> 00:32:52,54 a fixed pole say about four lb when you take up your slack you take up part of that 337 00:32:52,58 --> 00:32:58,80 hole. You're constantly increasing pressure takes up the rest of it and then the 338 00:32:58,81 --> 00:33:05,73 trigger gives and the rifle fire but follow through hold your position 339 00:33:06,65 --> 00:33:12,20 hold your aim and continue your increasing pressure. I'll tell you more about that 340 00:33:12,21 --> 00:33:18,95 later. When I want you to get this if you squeeze the trigger properly 341 00:33:19,63 --> 00:33:23,52 you can't know when the rifle is going to fire and therefore you won't be able to 342 00:33:23,53 --> 00:33:30,29 flinch. You will understand that. There's another mistake all of us 343 00:33:30,30 --> 00:33:35,20 make when we first start shooting the rifle. Practically everyone has 344 00:33:35,21 --> 00:33:39,58 a violent implodes yank the trigger the instant the sights come in correct 345 00:33:39,59 --> 00:33:40,50 alignment with 346 00:33:40,51 --> 00:33:45,58 a target the beginner is tempted particularly in the kneeling and standing position 347 00:33:46,04 --> 00:33:50,43 where the unsteadiness is marked. Your sights move 348 00:33:50,44 --> 00:33:57,07 a little side to side up and. Finally come to bear 349 00:33:57,08 --> 00:34:03,32 exactly on the bull's eye so at that instant you just trigger and this is what 350 00:34:03,33 --> 00:34:09,46 happens if you really really jerk your rifle clear off the target. You may not see 351 00:34:09,47 --> 00:34:14,15 it because both of your eyes will probably be shut tight and your muscles taut 352 00:34:14,22 --> 00:34:20,85 braced for the shot but whether you see it or not the result is the same while shot 353 00:34:20,85 --> 00:34:27,11 . There's only one way to get hit and only hits count on the battlefield and that 354 00:34:27,12 --> 00:34:31,40 is to squeeze the trigger and you've seen what happens when you check the trigger 355 00:34:31,41 --> 00:34:34,81 instead of squeezing it I'm going to show you why it happens. 356 00:34:39,35 --> 00:34:41,44 So let's assume that I'm shooting at 357 00:34:41,45 --> 00:34:48,79 a Target five hundred yards away. I've 358 00:34:48,80 --> 00:34:54,42 got my sights lined up on the left edge of the bull's eye. Since the range is five 359 00:34:54,43 --> 00:34:58,20 hundred I would be using the target with 360 00:34:58,21 --> 00:35:04,24 a twenty inch bull's eye if I fired now I hit the left edge of the black 361 00:35:05,53 --> 00:35:12,05 Now I'm going to move the rifle twenty interest to the right. And let's assume that 362 00:35:12,06 --> 00:35:18,33 I've moved the butt and the muzzle exactly the same distance. In other words 363 00:35:19,41 --> 00:35:25,12 my line of aim now is exactly parallel to my line of aim before I move the rifle. 364 00:35:26,97 --> 00:35:33,11 If I had then I would have preferred the left edge of the bowl who can tell me 365 00:35:33,12 --> 00:35:39,96 where I hit if I find out where you. Increase the 366 00:35:39,97 --> 00:35:46,88 right edge of the bolts are right you all understand that. I can move this 367 00:35:46,89 --> 00:35:53,42 rifle back and forth what inches if I fired it anywhere within that space. I'd 368 00:35:53,43 --> 00:35:53,85 still get 369 00:35:53,86 --> 00:36:01,08 a bullseye as long as I kept my lines of AIM parallel. I 370 00:36:01,09 --> 00:36:04,99 moved the rifle ten inches to the left again still keeping my parallel line of 371 00:36:05,00 --> 00:36:10,38 a. Bipartisan now I hit the bull's eye dead center. 372 00:36:12,38 --> 00:36:19,26 But now watch this. I'm going to keep the butt in place and move the 373 00:36:19,27 --> 00:36:26,20 muzzle of the rifle just wanted. To 374 00:36:26,21 --> 00:36:33,09 but stay the same as it is. I've moved the muzzle only. One inch. 375 00:36:37,85 --> 00:36:41,94 By side now where what is it. Not me. 376 00:36:46,46 --> 00:36:52,06 It will go off to one side I don't know just where would hit. Neither do I know 377 00:36:52,07 --> 00:36:57,04 just where I would hit but I can tell you this. It would miss the center of the 378 00:36:57,05 --> 00:37:03,13 bull's eye by about thirty five feet. Get that thirty five feet. 379 00:37:04,37 --> 00:37:09,92 The point is when you jack the trigger you twist the rifle off the line of aim when 380 00:37:09,93 --> 00:37:15,19 your sights are on the target you can move your whole rifle from side to side with 381 00:37:15,23 --> 00:37:20,59 the bull's eye and still hit it is the rifle always stays parallel to the line of 382 00:37:20,60 --> 00:37:27,57 aim. But if the butt of the rifle remains stationary and you jerked the 383 00:37:27,58 --> 00:37:33,82 muzzle off to one side as much as an inch your bullet will miss the target by about 384 00:37:33,83 --> 00:37:40,55 fifteen feet at two hundred yards. By twenty one feet at three hundred 385 00:37:40,56 --> 00:37:46,90 yards. Or by thirty five feet at five hundred. 386 00:37:49,64 --> 00:37:51,93 Half inch movement of the muzzle means 387 00:37:51,94 --> 00:37:58,70 a mispriced seventeen or eighteen feet at five hundred yards. A quarter inch 388 00:37:58,71 --> 00:38:04,60 movement will cause a misfire eight or nine feet. And even a movement as small as 389 00:38:04,61 --> 00:38:09,81 a sixteenth of an inch may make you miss the bull's eye. That's why it's so 390 00:38:09,82 --> 00:38:15,18 important to take the correct position so that your rifle and your whole body aimed 391 00:38:15,19 --> 00:38:21,68 directly at the bull's eye then when you squeeze the trigger so smoothly that you 392 00:38:21,69 --> 00:38:26,96 don't know when the rifle is going off the strike of your bullets. Will be changed 393 00:38:27,00 --> 00:38:31,78 only by the natural parallel movements of your body and your shots will be good. 394 00:38:33,63 --> 00:38:37,94 The unsteadiness caused by the natural movements of your body does not seriously 395 00:38:37,95 --> 00:38:44,61 affect the aim if you squeeze the trigger correctly OK let's see if you got the 396 00:38:44,62 --> 00:38:49,96 point so far what happens if you check the trigger. Harris. 397 00:38:52,98 --> 00:38:56,88 It's only a rifle muzzle off the target if you were shooting at 398 00:38:56,89 --> 00:39:02,42 a guy you wouldn't hit it right remember it and you'll get plenty of balls and guys 399 00:39:02,43 --> 00:39:09,31 to what should you do. So there you should 400 00:39:09,32 --> 00:39:15,53 squeeze the trigger so that you won't know when the right who was good. Tell me 401 00:39:15,54 --> 00:39:22,50 when to screech it. O'Neal. You take your position you 402 00:39:22,51 --> 00:39:27,54 hold your breath. You take up your slack and then you pull the trigger. 403 00:39:29,47 --> 00:39:31,52 You prods that you take up you take 404 00:39:31,53 --> 00:39:38,33 a slack before you begin to squeeze it often. Does taking 405 00:39:38,34 --> 00:39:38,54 up 406 00:39:38,55 --> 00:39:45,45 a right that you honestly write. And you go on steadily applying 407 00:39:45,46 --> 00:39:46,73 pressure until I have 408 00:39:46,74 --> 00:39:53,34 a fall you flinch and spoil your aim if you squeeze the trigger properly martial. 409 00:39:57,34 --> 00:40:04,23 Why not I don't know where I was going off tank is all there is to it every time 410 00:40:04,24 --> 00:40:08,27 you squeeze the trigger be sure to do these things apply 411 00:40:08,31 --> 00:40:14,13 a steadily increasing pressure and continue smoothly until the rifle is fired 412 00:40:15,46 --> 00:40:21,11 I know this seems easy it is but it must be practiced over and over you must 413 00:40:21,12 --> 00:40:26,59 develop the habit of thinking only of the sight picture. You must practice until 414 00:40:26,60 --> 00:40:30,04 the trigger finger works independently as if it had 415 00:40:30,05 --> 00:40:36,78 a mind of its own. Under any question. Sir 416 00:40:37,16 --> 00:40:41,46 how much time should you take to squeeze the trigger the expert takes about two 417 00:40:41,47 --> 00:40:42,36 seconds to fire 418 00:40:42,37 --> 00:40:47,51 a well aimed shot he can do this because he knows his job so well that the whole 419 00:40:47,52 --> 00:40:53,81 procedure is almost automatic. Speed comes with practice and it follows through 420 00:40:55,12 --> 00:41:00,63 Here's what we mean by follow through after the hammer falls go right on for an 421 00:41:00,64 --> 00:41:07,32 instant doing what you are doing hold your breath and aim and apply your steadily 422 00:41:07,33 --> 00:41:14,14 increasing pressure on the trigger. This helps overcome the natural tendency to let 423 00:41:14,15 --> 00:41:20,47 go would disturb the sight alignment. All right. We've shown you how to squeeze the 424 00:41:20,48 --> 00:41:27,18 trigger and follow through and we have an equal way of checking up on you with each 425 00:41:27,19 --> 00:41:31,79 shot we have you call out where you think the bullet is going to hit this is 426 00:41:31,80 --> 00:41:37,65 calling the shot and you do it the instant after the shot is fired it's 427 00:41:37,66 --> 00:41:44,51 a cinch to call your shots treating the trigger properly. Then your eye is open and 428 00:41:44,52 --> 00:41:50,44 you can see where your sights are aligned when the rifle fired because if you check 429 00:41:50,45 --> 00:41:56,77 the trigger close your eyes flinch you won't be able to call your shot because you 430 00:41:56,78 --> 00:42:01,96 will know where your sights are aligned when the rifle went off the point is that 431 00:42:01,97 --> 00:42:05,89 only the man who squeezes the trigger properly can tell where the shot should hit. 432 00:42:07,17 --> 00:42:14,05 Here's the system we used to call our shots. Most of you 433 00:42:14,06 --> 00:42:17,39 know by now that a hit here is 434 00:42:17,40 --> 00:42:23,82 a five. And in this circle four and this one. 435 00:42:25,88 --> 00:42:31,69 Three anywhere else on the target. Is 436 00:42:31,70 --> 00:42:38,56 a two M is zero. Now every time you fire a shot imagine 437 00:42:38,57 --> 00:42:41,85 a large vertical clock based on your target with 438 00:42:41,86 --> 00:42:46,82 a bull's eye in the center. This gives you a simple system of calling 439 00:42:46,83 --> 00:42:53,43 a shot for example suppose that the instant your rifle goes off you see your 440 00:42:53,44 --> 00:43:00,07 sights a line so that the bullet will hit here. Then you will call your shop 441 00:43:00,11 --> 00:43:06,76 a Ford twelve o'clock. Because it's in the force. And in the direction of twelve 442 00:43:06,77 --> 00:43:12,28 o'clock. I hit here. Would be 443 00:43:12,29 --> 00:43:17,62 a three at seven o'clock. To 444 00:43:17,66 --> 00:43:23,79 a two o'clock. And here before I did eleven. 445 00:43:25,65 --> 00:43:26,31 And hear 446 00:43:27,27 --> 00:43:34,26 a pin wheel five. In the rain you call your shot slow fire. You in 447 00:43:34,27 --> 00:43:40,25 the coach compare the cold shot with the actual shot to see if you know where you 448 00:43:40,26 --> 00:43:45,25 are aiming when the piece is fired. In Drive shooting there's no way to check 449 00:43:45,53 --> 00:43:50,80 whether or not you call your shots correctly but it's to your advantage to do so it 450 00:43:50,81 --> 00:43:55,19 helps you to develop the habit of concentrating on the sight picture and forgetting 451 00:43:55,20 --> 00:43:58,56 that second finger it helps you to develop the habit to call 452 00:43:58,57 --> 00:44:05,17 a shot as you will do on the range. I want to take your screens exercise as in all 453 00:44:05,18 --> 00:44:11,47 the others the coach must check every step he sees that the sights are properly 454 00:44:11,48 --> 00:44:18,01 black and the sling correctly adjusted. The checks the pupils position. 455 00:44:19,03 --> 00:44:22,20 If it's wrong he tells imply corrected. 456 00:44:36,07 --> 00:44:40,50 He keeps an eye on the pupils back during aiming to make sure he holds his breath 457 00:44:40,54 --> 00:44:47,48 properly. He sees the pupil 458 00:44:47,49 --> 00:44:52,97 takes up the slack and squeezes the trigger properly he watches his eyes to make 459 00:44:52,98 --> 00:44:59,17 sure he does not blink. When the pupil is actually firing the rifle you can chalk 460 00:44:59,18 --> 00:44:59,32 up 461 00:44:59,33 --> 00:45:07,86 a flinch for him any time you see as I close. The flinch. Just 462 00:45:07,87 --> 00:45:14,09 before the explosion therefore you can see it. If he doesn't flinch you won't see 463 00:45:14,10 --> 00:45:19,75 as I close your eyes his will close in voluntarily at the sound of the explosion. 464 00:45:21,02 --> 00:45:27,99 Under any questions about anything we've covered today. OK you're going 465 00:45:28,00 --> 00:45:33,53 to hear these things over and over again from your coaches your squad leaders your 466 00:45:33,54 --> 00:45:40,08 platoon leaders and me. You're going to hear them and practice them until they 467 00:45:40,09 --> 00:45:40,79 become so much 468 00:45:40,80 --> 00:45:47,06 a part of you that you couldn't forget them if you wanted to. If you acquire these 469 00:45:47,07 --> 00:45:52,36 correct habits and you're prepared to work you'll find that the actual firing on 470 00:45:52,37 --> 00:45:57,63 the range is just simple as shooting fish in the kitchen sink. 471 00:45:59,40 --> 00:45:59,61 To be 472 00:45:59,62 --> 00:46:06,66 a good shot you must try. One hundred or more shots for 473 00:46:06,67 --> 00:46:13,55 every round. And with as much care. Remember. 474 00:46:15,73 --> 00:46:20,84 Squeezing the trigger correctly. Is the best life insurance you can get. 475 00:46:39,19 --> 00:46:41,46 When I. 476 00:46:56,65 --> 00:47:00,58 Ever thing we've been teaching your all about the M one rifle fighting and aiming 477 00:47:01,25 --> 00:47:02,49 position I think 478 00:47:02,50 --> 00:47:07,35 a squeeze the whole cloth in marksmanship isn't leading straight to the subject 479 00:47:07,50 --> 00:47:13,71 we're going to take up right now. Rapid fire exercise 480 00:47:14,67 --> 00:47:20,18 so let me warn you right now about that word wrap it. Does not mean taking just any 481 00:47:20,19 --> 00:47:26,92 position on reading your aim object in the trigger does not mean spraying bullets 482 00:47:27,39 --> 00:47:33,77 all over the landscape rapid fire. Means getting off well aimed shot as fast as you 483 00:47:33,78 --> 00:47:39,63 can. Firing as fast as you can fire accurately so fast that. 484 00:47:40,74 --> 00:47:45,28 The measure of your effectiveness in Rapid Fire is not shots for minutes but hits 485 00:47:45,29 --> 00:47:50,42 per minute. Remember that when you're on the reins. And remember it when your 486 00:47:50,43 --> 00:47:51,37 target is a Jap or 487 00:47:51,38 --> 00:47:56,93 a German who is just as anxious to kill you as you are to kill him. Keep calm and 488 00:47:56,94 --> 00:48:01,60 get what you're shooting at suppose you're in the supply detail runs into an area. 489 00:48:03,18 --> 00:48:08,32 You've got to jump into position and get your shots off fast. They won't do any 490 00:48:08,33 --> 00:48:13,42 good unless they're well aimed. Suppose you're in a defensive position all of 491 00:48:13,43 --> 00:48:18,35 a sudden your enemies in close charging you from all sides the first impulse is to 492 00:48:18,36 --> 00:48:25,27 stop blazing away right. You must not. Be pulled to go so you've got to 493 00:48:25,28 --> 00:48:30,64 shoot said but you've got to make every bullet count. Don't lose your head even 494 00:48:30,65 --> 00:48:36,72 though hell breaking loose all around you. And shoot straight. And you'll live to 495 00:48:36,73 --> 00:48:41,46 tell your girl about it. Coolness and battle comes from confidence in yourself 496 00:48:42,00 --> 00:48:48,10 confidence comes only from hours of practice. And rapid fire over and over with 497 00:48:48,11 --> 00:48:55,02 a stopwatch looking over your shoulder. We teach rapid fire position in the prone 498 00:48:55,03 --> 00:49:02,02 position. And in the sitting position which are the best. 499 00:49:04,27 --> 00:49:09,39 And the kneeling position. That even position is none too steady but there are 500 00:49:09,40 --> 00:49:14,70 times when it comes in handy and you'd better be ready for just about anything we 501 00:49:14,71 --> 00:49:20,24 don't teach rapid fire in the standing position however it's not present. In the 502 00:49:20,25 --> 00:49:24,27 standing position you're not properly balanced for accurate aiming at high speeds. 503 00:49:26,34 --> 00:49:31,96 The first thing you've got to learn in rapid fire exercises. Is getting into the 504 00:49:31,97 --> 00:49:35,60 right firing position in a hurry you're allowed to choose 505 00:49:35,61 --> 00:49:42,27 a position you're going to take to market. For the proposition. Drop to the 506 00:49:42,28 --> 00:49:45,64 ground get set and line up your sights on the target. 507 00:49:51,52 --> 00:49:58,36 Not the point for your right and left elbow and the part of the rifle. Then 508 00:49:58,37 --> 00:50:05,22 keeping your feet in place stand up. Hold the heel of the stock in your right 509 00:50:05,23 --> 00:50:10,86 hand now you're ready at first to practice getting into the prone position by the 510 00:50:10,87 --> 00:50:16,32 numbers on the count of one then journey to the ground and throw your weight back. 511 00:50:18,49 --> 00:50:22,08 On to place the front of your rifle on the ground at the spot too much. 512 00:50:26,24 --> 00:50:31,37 At three place your left elbow on it's mock at all take the brunt of the rifle off 513 00:50:31,38 --> 00:50:38,27 the ground and fit it into the hollow of your shoulder. At five 514 00:50:38,68 --> 00:50:42,60 ten your right hand to the small of the stock and drop your right elbow to the 515 00:50:42,61 --> 00:50:48,86 ground on the spot right. Now immediately line up your sights on the target. 516 00:50:50,19 --> 00:50:55,85 Soldier press aim take up the trigger slack and squeeze off the shot now if your 517 00:50:55,86 --> 00:50:59,52 position is right your right for will naturally fall back on the target at three 518 00:50:59,56 --> 00:51:01,41 shot and you can fire 519 00:51:01,42 --> 00:51:05,79 a whole clip with only slight pause between to get your sights in perfect alignment 520 00:51:06,77 --> 00:51:12,31 at first you'll practice by the numbers so that your coach and instructed can check 521 00:51:12,32 --> 00:51:18,28 the accuracy of each position and movement taken by the numbers once Masashi Yessir 522 00:51:18,28 --> 00:51:19,53 . Read 523 00:51:19,54 --> 00:51:27,40 a position. One. Two. Three 524 00:51:27,40 --> 00:51:32,13 . Four. Five. 525 00:51:36,89 --> 00:51:41,07 Once you've learned it by the numbers you're practiced against time so that you can 526 00:51:41,08 --> 00:51:46,69 check your progress see how you're going. We start to slowly and speed you have 527 00:51:46,70 --> 00:51:51,64 gradually until you can take your position aim and get off your first shot in nine 528 00:51:51,65 --> 00:51:57,59 seconds Here's how it goes in try shooting watch out smoothly the five steps flow 529 00:51:57,60 --> 00:52:03,91 together into one continuous motion Go ahead. Lock em 530 00:52:03,92 --> 00:52:09,66 a light load. Right on the right right on the left. 531 00:52:11,14 --> 00:52:16,21 Right on the fire line. Targets up. 532 00:52:25,63 --> 00:52:32,13 Time. Nine seconds doesn't sound like much time but you've just seen that is 533 00:52:32,14 --> 00:52:37,38 plenty for an experienced man. It won't be long before you'll melt smoothly into 534 00:52:37,39 --> 00:52:44,01 your prone position with seconds to spare to squeeze up your first shot. Naturally 535 00:52:44,43 --> 00:52:45,31 the faster you get into 536 00:52:45,32 --> 00:52:51,86 a good position the more time you've got to aim fire so slip into position 537 00:52:52,51 --> 00:52:55,28 and then take your time to get an accurate aim and 538 00:52:55,29 --> 00:53:00,66 a careful squeeze on that trigger. And then Miss in seven or eight seconds no good 539 00:53:00,66 --> 00:53:06,13 . What you want is a bull's eye a nine second. Try to get 540 00:53:06,14 --> 00:53:10,93 a smooth flow and every movement if you drop to the ground. Think of how it would 541 00:53:10,94 --> 00:53:15,82 look if every move made it very slowly. Back it up. 542 00:53:18,10 --> 00:53:24,44 One. Two. Three. 543 00:53:27,75 --> 00:53:33,06 All. By now hold your breath and take 544 00:53:33,07 --> 00:53:39,55 a careful aim six. Seven degrees slowly and steadily on that. 545 00:53:40,75 --> 00:53:47,25 Eight. Time. Every one of you can do it as easily as 546 00:53:47,26 --> 00:53:53,32 that if you remember this one point do it as fast as you can do it right 547 00:53:54,31 --> 00:53:55,79 never hurt your aim or Your take 548 00:53:55,80 --> 00:54:02,78 a squeeze. Now for the sitting position. First take 549 00:54:02,79 --> 00:54:06,57 the correct position and try it out to be sure the rifle points naturally at the 550 00:54:06,58 --> 00:54:13,50 target. Then mark the 551 00:54:13,51 --> 00:54:15,75 places for your heel and you'll see. 552 00:54:20,37 --> 00:54:27,35 Stand up in the mouth for your heels. At the command target stop just quickly 553 00:54:27,36 --> 00:54:32,96 on the spot not for your seat breaking the fall with your right hand. That's 554 00:54:32,97 --> 00:54:37,74 another way of getting into the sitting position that you may find easier. After 555 00:54:37,75 --> 00:54:44,09 you've marked the places for your feet cross your legs and ride. Stand with your 556 00:54:44,10 --> 00:54:48,59 legs crossed until the command targets up then venture in Asia and sink to the 557 00:54:48,60 --> 00:54:53,59 ground. This is quicker than the other method but it forces you to take your eyes 558 00:54:53,60 --> 00:54:54,78 off the target value such 559 00:54:54,79 --> 00:55:01,21 a feat in the places marked for them. Otherwise the action is the same. Facial left 560 00:55:01,22 --> 00:55:07,17 elbow. It's the right to butt into the hollow of your shoulder and complete your 561 00:55:07,18 --> 00:55:12,83 fighting position. Hold your breath aim and squeeze off the shot. 562 00:55:14,27 --> 00:55:18,99 With practice you'll be able to go from the ready to the sitting position and get 563 00:55:19,00 --> 00:55:24,38 off your first aim shot in seven seconds Sajan Let's see that against time 564 00:55:24,96 --> 00:55:31,93 a. Lot. Some light load. Ready on 565 00:55:31,94 --> 00:55:36,74 the right right on the left right on the fire line. 566 00:55:38,95 --> 00:55:41,04 I get up. 567 00:55:49,11 --> 00:55:55,31 Time. Here to have caused the quicker you take the correct position the more time 568 00:55:55,32 --> 00:56:00,12 you've got to squeeze off your shot. The exercise in the kneeling position is like 569 00:56:00,13 --> 00:56:06,34 the other two you mark the places for your feet and your right knee and get out on 570 00:56:06,35 --> 00:56:12,97 command you lock load and stand ready when you hit targets up take the kneeling 571 00:56:12,98 --> 00:56:19,75 position you have marked. Hold your breath aim and squeeze the trigger. 572 00:56:22,02 --> 00:56:26,51 With practice you'll be able to go from the ready position to the kneading position 573 00:56:26,87 --> 00:56:33,23 and get off your first shot in seven seconds. I get up 574 00:56:33,72 --> 00:56:39,35 Want to three or four I think. 575 00:56:41,97 --> 00:56:47,56 I've said the place to save time in all three of these exercises is in taking your 576 00:56:47,57 --> 00:56:54,01 position. But don't misunderstand me. That does not mean scrambling into the wrong 577 00:56:54,02 --> 00:56:54,57 position in 578 00:56:54,58 --> 00:57:01,35 a hurry. In rapid fire just as in any other phase of rifle work. You've got to 579 00:57:01,36 --> 00:57:06,21 be in the correct position before you start doing after you've learned to take the 580 00:57:06,22 --> 00:57:11,59 three firing position and squeeze off your first shot at the required speed you're 581 00:57:11,60 --> 00:57:16,85 ready for the cadence exercise the purpose of which is to develop a rhythm 582 00:57:17,43 --> 00:57:24,31 a regular beat at about three second intervals. One thing to 583 00:57:24,32 --> 00:57:29,26 work smoothly in a regular came for another on the range you're allowed 584 00:57:29,27 --> 00:57:35,17 a little time to take your position by your first slip reload and get off your 585 00:57:35,18 --> 00:57:40,48 second. And the three second interval bring you out comfortably within the time 586 00:57:40,49 --> 00:57:46,30 alloted. Don't expect you to be able to do it all at once. Will start to dry 587 00:57:46,31 --> 00:57:51,18 halting at the rate of an aim shot every five seconds then every thought I have 588 00:57:52,16 --> 00:57:57,12 then every call which in dry shooting corresponds to three seconds on the range 589 00:57:57,49 --> 00:58:02,17 because the hand operation Altie is slower than its actual operation inspiring. 590 00:58:03,21 --> 00:58:09,44 Here again the coach and pupil method is the best pupil simulate firing while 591 00:58:09,45 --> 00:58:14,87 a coach works the operating Rod handle to keep the boat from being held in the open 592 00:58:14,88 --> 00:58:18,47 position when it is drawn back the coach puts 593 00:58:18,48 --> 00:58:37,50 a small block of wood in the clit. There 594 00:58:37,51 --> 00:58:42,24 are several other ways to get the same result but in this company we find this 595 00:58:42,25 --> 00:58:45,78 method the easiest and the best your squad leaders will have 596 00:58:45,79 --> 00:58:47,74 a supply of these blocks and 597 00:58:47,75 --> 00:58:52,20 a list of them when they are needed. Let's take the exercise at five second 598 00:58:52,21 --> 00:58:58,24 intervals. Hammer down concert ready. Boat. 599 00:59:03,27 --> 00:59:08,74 Boat. Nope. 600 00:59:13,26 --> 00:59:19,19 Nope. Nope. 601 00:59:24,13 --> 00:59:30,72 Nope. As I said before in these 602 00:59:30,73 --> 00:59:35,84 exercises the coach is just about as important as the rifle in the cadence 603 00:59:35,85 --> 00:59:41,20 exercises when he forces back the operating Rod handle the axis part of the rifle 604 00:59:42,09 --> 00:59:47,80 in doing this he must not lean against the handle. He strikes the handle sharply 605 00:59:48,28 --> 00:59:53,40 and immediately remove his hand so that the bold can snap back into position it's 606 00:59:53,41 --> 00:59:55,46 a good idea for the coach to wear 607 00:59:55,47 --> 01:00:00,63 a glove representative around his hand. Like that operating Rod handle 608 01:00:00,64 --> 01:00:06,75 a couple of hundred times if you want to know why but notice that the coach strikes 609 01:00:06,76 --> 01:00:12,70 the handle only don't when the command boat is given by the instructor but as to 610 01:00:13,26 --> 01:00:19,43 that the command is given whether or not the rifle ministry's dop is shot. If the 611 01:00:19,44 --> 01:00:24,32 pupil is late don't toast is not operate the build but wait for the next command 612 01:00:24,33 --> 01:00:30,07 after the pupil is fired. You'll do this exercise a minute at 613 01:00:30,08 --> 01:00:36,71 a time in the problem then in the sitting then in the nailing position gradually 614 01:00:36,72 --> 01:00:42,69 speeding up the cadence until your profession in cadence exercises is sure to take 615 01:00:42,70 --> 01:00:47,83 the correct position. So let's just side turn automatically to the aiming point 616 01:00:47,92 --> 01:00:53,13 after each shot Keep your eye contact the on the sight picture and squeeze that 617 01:00:53,14 --> 01:00:58,15 trigger with the increasing pressure until the hammer folds then keep your finger 618 01:00:58,16 --> 01:01:04,80 on the target for the next shot. Yes I'll say it again it's constant drill in speed 619 01:01:04,81 --> 01:01:10,05 and accuracy that makes the experts rifleman but even constant kill won't do you 620 01:01:10,06 --> 01:01:16,99 any good unless you make each movement right every time. After you 621 01:01:17,00 --> 01:01:22,20 learn to fire and cave and you'll move on to two exercises in simulated rapid fire 622 01:01:22,20 --> 01:01:29,05 . The first of the you use a clip with 623 01:01:29,06 --> 01:01:29,82 a wooden block. 624 01:01:36,78 --> 01:01:41,54 On the command targets up you'll go from standing to the prone position and squeeze 625 01:01:41,55 --> 01:01:48,55 out your first job in nine seconds. Then you'll get off each 626 01:01:48,68 --> 01:01:52,60 of the next seven rounds of your first cliff at full second intervals. 627 01:02:03,68 --> 01:02:08,34 But it won't be anybody to call up the general spoil. Your cadence exercise will 628 01:02:08,35 --> 01:02:11,37 have taught you the rhythm when you hear 629 01:02:11,41 --> 01:02:18,22 a frown. Reload you'll simulate reloading. And you'll have nine seconds to do 630 01:02:18,23 --> 01:02:24,94 it. And squeeze off at ninety but. Once again 631 01:02:25,15 --> 01:02:27,42 four seconds each for the next seven rounds. 632 01:02:35,66 --> 01:02:41,53 When you hear last round. You'll still have five seconds extra before the command 633 01:02:41,54 --> 01:02:46,57 cease firing. This exercise is done in 634 01:02:46,58 --> 01:02:53,25 a total of seventy nine seconds. All right 635 01:02:54,01 --> 01:02:58,41 let's see how it goes. Not unlike 636 01:02:58,42 --> 01:03:04,22 a little. Many on the right. Many on the left 637 01:03:05,77 --> 01:03:06,11 right on 638 01:03:06,12 --> 01:03:20,49 a fire line. I get up. Good 639 01:03:21,14 --> 01:03:27,67 around the first shot to be fired in the first nine seconds. You've got forty 640 01:03:27,68 --> 01:03:31,79 seconds for each of the next seven shops. Oh. 641 01:03:43,06 --> 01:03:48,40 Great shot should be off by the time you hear that round real low remember you 642 01:03:48,41 --> 01:03:54,92 count your own shop. If you fire the eighth round before you hear reload you don't 643 01:03:54,93 --> 01:03:59,22 have to wait reload immediately. To. 644 01:04:02,00 --> 01:04:06,04 Them. Though. 645 01:04:09,11 --> 01:04:13,79 If you keep the fire radical and steady you'll get all the last stop just as it's 646 01:04:13,80 --> 01:04:20,50 called fifteen. Last round 647 01:04:20,66 --> 01:04:27,12 don't you still have five more seconds to finish up without hiring firing that's 648 01:04:27,13 --> 01:04:33,80 your first exercise in simulated rapid fire. But before we go on that several 649 01:04:33,81 --> 01:04:39,93 things I want to point out. In all of your rapid fire exercises the short accounts 650 01:04:39,94 --> 01:04:46,62 of shots allowed that you had private are still just now. By counting the shots 651 01:04:47,20 --> 01:04:51,02 you know exactly what's left in your clip and you're ready to reload when you're 652 01:04:51,03 --> 01:04:57,96 short which saves time but that's another reason. You've got 653 01:04:57,97 --> 01:04:59,51 to use the air in your lungs to call 654 01:04:59,52 --> 01:05:06,49 a number. And that forces you to breathe at just the right time but don't get 655 01:05:06,50 --> 01:05:08,83 the idea that counting aloud is just 656 01:05:08,84 --> 01:05:14,73 a training exercise. You'll call the numbers out and back to your reason for doing 657 01:05:14,74 --> 01:05:20,88 it will be the same for the whole lot stronger. In combat knowing when to reload 658 01:05:20,93 --> 01:05:25,27 will save more than time. Getting caught with one round in your rifle when the 659 01:05:25,28 --> 01:05:27,38 enemy is coming at you as good 660 01:05:27,39 --> 01:05:32,91 a way as any but then the career. When you're firing keep your eye on the target 661 01:05:32,92 --> 01:05:39,49 all the time don't look away. Properly recall will just go ahead up 662 01:05:39,50 --> 01:05:41,42 a little but it'll fall back with 663 01:05:41,43 --> 01:05:46,56 a rifle. And when you have to look away to reload be sure you get back on the right 664 01:05:46,57 --> 01:05:52,53 target on the range the pretty is dead center five on the wrong target goes down on 665 01:05:52,54 --> 01:05:53,31 your score as 666 01:05:53,32 --> 01:05:59,32 a zero. And remember the habits you're foaming now are the ones you will take with 667 01:05:59,33 --> 01:06:06,17 you into battle where your target is hard to see and is easily lost in dry run 668 01:06:06,50 --> 01:06:11,76 the command bolt is not given. The coach listens to the click of the hammer and 669 01:06:11,77 --> 01:06:16,26 strikes the operating Rod handle back the second to his it when you simulate 670 01:06:16,55 --> 01:06:22,29 pretend to load that second clip. If you do you'll only teach yourself out of some 671 01:06:22,30 --> 01:06:25,87 valuable training. Don't do it is private office doing 672 01:06:25,88 --> 01:06:32,54 a no that kind of exercise is worse than none because it creates bad habits. Go 673 01:06:32,55 --> 01:06:35,74 through your simulated reloading exactly as if you were handling 674 01:06:35,75 --> 01:06:42,73 a clip. A fumble in reloading when you're fighting for record would knock 675 01:06:42,74 --> 01:06:43,48 your score into 676 01:06:43,49 --> 01:06:49,70 a cocked hat that's your first exercise in simulated fire and you'll practice isn't 677 01:06:49,71 --> 01:06:51,79 the problem sitting in 678 01:06:51,80 --> 01:06:59,20 a kneeling position. You're 679 01:06:59,21 --> 01:07:05,25 allowed total seventy nine seconds on the prone exercise but only seventy five 680 01:07:05,39 --> 01:07:12,22 seconds for the sitting in the. Seven seconds 681 01:07:12,43 --> 01:07:16,37 instead of nine. Take the position and spot 682 01:07:16,38 --> 01:07:22,98 a faster on. Eight seconds instead of nine to reload. 683 01:07:25,35 --> 01:07:29,11 And three SECONDS EXTRA instead of five at the end. 684 01:07:32,06 --> 01:07:38,11 Except for the position and time sitting in the exercises are exactly like the 685 01:07:38,12 --> 01:07:44,97 prone. The purpose is to teach you to keep the proper cadence even though no 686 01:07:44,98 --> 01:07:51,77 one is calling. Once you've done this you repeat the series using dummy rounds 687 01:07:51,96 --> 01:07:58,82 and no wooden block. The timing is the same and the performance is the same with 688 01:07:58,83 --> 01:08:03,80 dummy round you must learn to load a fresh clip quickly and that's 689 01:08:03,81 --> 01:08:10,10 a trick in itself. As you take the clip from your belt grasp it at the base and 690 01:08:10,11 --> 01:08:15,89 near wanted between your thumb and forefinger and carry it forward swinging it up 691 01:08:15,93 --> 01:08:21,49 until the bullets point to fall and place the clip in the receiver and slide just 692 01:08:21,50 --> 01:08:26,70 some forward along the top of it to the center of the concrete double your fingers 693 01:08:26,71 --> 01:08:32,41 up out of the way. Raise your arm and press the clip down into the receiver until 694 01:08:32,42 --> 01:08:39,23 the clip latch engages. At your age of thumb the operating Rod handle should snap 695 01:08:39,24 --> 01:08:45,02 forward if it doesn't strike it with the heel of your hand. And your rifle is ready 696 01:08:45,03 --> 01:08:49,59 to be fired again. It's how 697 01:08:49,60 --> 01:08:52,47 a trained rifleman reloads in the prone position. 698 01:08:58,95 --> 01:09:00,12 In the sitting position. 699 01:09:08,98 --> 01:09:10,55 And in the naming position. 700 01:09:20,62 --> 01:09:25,34 When you first do these exercises you'll feel that seventy nine and seventy four 701 01:09:25,35 --> 01:09:30,77 seconds are going to rush you. But there's plenty of time to get off those sixteen 702 01:09:30,78 --> 01:09:37,74 shots so don't try to beat the clock that will help you score when you can on 703 01:09:37,75 --> 01:09:44,17 the Range go out on your hit. Don't get from. The stopwatch is 704 01:09:44,18 --> 01:09:49,12 important but don't let it push you around. Don't be in such 705 01:09:49,13 --> 01:09:55,96 a rush that you spray bullets all over the target. You're going to shoot while you 706 01:09:55,97 --> 01:10:02,58 get all your stuff off and study second. But don't do it. One recruit 707 01:10:02,59 --> 01:10:08,56 does and then turns and finds an old timer beside him just loading his second claim 708 01:10:08,56 --> 01:10:11,43 . He feels like 709 01:10:11,44 --> 01:10:18,02 a fool. Take it easy. There's no time to pick daisies but there's plenty of time to 710 01:10:18,03 --> 01:10:24,100 fire sixteen shop and get sixteen both sides. And remember even 711 01:10:25,01 --> 01:10:31,74 twelve that isn't sixteen three. So don't get excited slow and 712 01:10:31,75 --> 01:10:37,19 careful that's the rule that brings in the high schools of the brain. And it's the 713 01:10:37,20 --> 01:10:43,09 room that knows I'm down and back. Up to now we've been discussing the pupil and 714 01:10:43,10 --> 01:10:49,06 what he does now let's look at the coach in rapid fire exercises he's got plenty to 715 01:10:49,07 --> 01:10:54,24 do and not much time to do it in addition to his other duties you already know 716 01:10:54,25 --> 01:10:59,79 about to make sure the pupil takes his position quickly and without waste movement 717 01:10:59,79 --> 01:11:06,36 . That he takes up the TEGA slack with one decisive action 718 01:11:06,83 --> 01:11:09,15 and squeezes the trigger correct but. 719 01:11:14,78 --> 01:11:21,23 We. Hold that he breathes that three shot but. 720 01:11:24,54 --> 01:11:31,00 That he keeps his finger on the trigger. That when he 721 01:11:31,01 --> 01:11:33,59 reloads on the belt he doesn't crumble. 722 01:11:39,79 --> 01:11:43,69 The moment the hammer falls the coach throws the other reading Rod handle back 723 01:11:43,70 --> 01:11:50,54 sharply to get his hand out of the way. In rapid fire the coach is the same man 724 01:11:51,31 --> 01:11:58,15 he's got to know is stop and keep his eyes open. When he's on the job he can 725 01:11:58,16 --> 01:11:58,68 help us do 726 01:11:58,69 --> 01:12:06,63 a lot more to himself even mall. And 727 01:12:06,64 --> 01:12:12,71 he questions on Rapid Fire. All right let's sum up. 728 01:12:14,03 --> 01:12:16,32 Rapid Fire slow fire speeded up 729 01:12:16,33 --> 01:12:23,03 a little in rapid fire just as in slow fire take the right position hold your 730 01:12:23,04 --> 01:12:29,29 breath and aimed properly. And screech or take a smoothly. Even if you take 731 01:12:29,30 --> 01:12:36,02 a little longer than your shot. We count the seconds you 732 01:12:36,03 --> 01:12:37,65 take and we work you against 733 01:12:37,66 --> 01:12:43,97 a stopwatch but speed is worse than useless unless you do everything right every 734 01:12:43,98 --> 01:12:49,71 time you do it take it slowly and press and make every movement exactly as you're 735 01:12:49,72 --> 01:12:56,49 showing. Will come of itself. And it won't be long before the right way is the 736 01:12:56,50 --> 01:13:01,82 natural way for you the only way then when you find yourself in 737 01:13:01,83 --> 01:13:06,35 a tight spot in battle you will lose your head leis away while that's 738 01:13:06,40 --> 01:13:09,38 a quick way to the cemetery. For my money 739 01:13:09,89 --> 01:13:15,54 a good soldier is alive soldier dependable habits will make you calm and cool and 740 01:13:15,55 --> 01:13:20,74 confident and you'll hit what you're shooting at. That's pretty important when what 741 01:13:20,75 --> 01:13:22,78 you're shooting at shooting at you.